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The scale of food documentary Food Inc.—which happens to earn a 96% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes—is "mind-blowing" to New York magazine's David Edelstein: "After an hour and a half of sighing, wincing, and clucking over the manifold outrages portrayed in Robert Kenner’s Food, Inc., I gave up the thought of “reviewing” the documentary and decided, instead, to exhort you: See it. Bring your kids if you have them. Bring someone else’s kids if you don’t. The message is nothing new if you’ve read Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation or Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma (both are in the film). But every frame makes you choke on your popcorn—if for no other reason than the focus on government-underwritten corn and the companies who put it into everything from soda to Midol to the gassy, E. coli–ridden bellies of factory-farmed cows."
Bonus: Kenner will be at Film Forum for tonight's and tomorrow's 6pm & 8:30pm screenings.
This weekend, the big release is the star-loaded remake of the 1970s classic subway thriller, The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3. But there are other worthy films to see, if the notion of seeing a subway movie in New York City makes you think of a packed subway during rush hour. Click through the gallery to see.
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Re: Indiana Jones, I agree with Stan.
Me too.
I'm showing my kids the original Pelham 123 tonight, so they'll have a benchmark. I think the original is a magnificently understated and thrilling film, and a great time capsule of 1970s NYC. We'll see the new one next weekend; here's hoping it doesn't disappoint. It looks promising, which will be nice as so many of the remakes are whores with thick makeup.
Meh, I'm not that interested in watching Freddy Mercury take over a subway car.
Would rather watch The Hangover again.
FTW
pretty excited to see Moon tonight.
They should call it the Raping of Pelham 1-2-3. What sacrilege!
Have you seen the remake yet?
I'll just pop the DVD of the real Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 in instead. The original was great, an and an improvement on the book. This unneeded remake looks worse than the late 1990s made for TV remake filmed in Toronto. Gesundheit!